Editor’s letter: Paying the price for the flu fiasco
When public health officials fail, the risks are far more serious and potentially deadly.
Opinion: Keeping an eye out for accounting inequities
Correcting for accounting inequities can wipe out anywhere from 3% to 21% of a company’s stock value.
Opinion: Jim Balsillie was felled by hockey’s snuffling cranks
Gary Bettman has no standing to decide who can be an owner, and he shouldn’t be fronting a blackballing operation.
Winners & Losers: Who’s up, who’s down
Detroit housing, Baby Einstein, Twitter, Hydro-Québec and more.
Toy safety still a crapshoot
Canadian rules focus more on recalls than on keeping unsafe goods off shelves.
Telecom: CRTC veto shuts Globalive out of wireless competition
CRTC veto puts new wireless competitor on hold and the federal cabinet in a bind.
Adventure tourism: Tourism of duty in Iraq
As foreign armies leave Iraq, tour guides ? and tourists ? are slowly taking their place.
International economics: A few brics short of a load?
Experts question whether Brazil, Russia, India and China merit supergroup status.
Social media: Enter the Twitterati
Thanks to the Twitterati, a publicity crisis is never more than 140 characters away.
Forestry: Pine-beetle payback
B.C. is starting to reap unexpected dividends from its insect-ravaged forests.
Mining: The making of a growth stock?
Takara’s all-female executive team hopes to woo investors with strategic alliances.
Investing: SEC shines a light on “dark pools”
SEC targets private trading networks that favour some investors over others.
The CEO Poll: Fix the Canadian pension system
Business leaders and retirees alike are unhappy with the Canadian pension system.
Eco-burial: The future of death
At the funerals of the future, corpses may be frozen solid and shattered into bits.
Energy: Harnessing dirt power
Batteries powered by soil could provide electricity to millions of Africans.
The Ode: Buell Motorcycle Co.
Despite its innovation, this maker of custom racing bikes and its uncompromising attitude couldn’t survive an economic downturn and a changing marketplace.
2010 Investing Guide
Three high-octane investing strategies that offer at least the potential for sky-high returns in the coming year.
Retail: HBC’s Cinderella moment
The Bay is reinventing itself as a haven for fashionistas, frugal and otherwise. Is anyone buying it?
Economics: A voice in the wilderness
Paul Krugman on why economists misread the financial crisis and the U.S. still needs more stimulus.
All-star execs 2009
CB staff pored over financial data and debated the challenges and successes of Canada’s top companies to create our 8th annual dream team of executive talent.
Bosses: Mastering the fine art of managing up
Do you work for a yeller, a whiner, a shirker or a credit stealer? How to outflank a difficult boss.
Investment risk: Examining the ?run-length effect?
Thanks to the ‘run-length effect,’ when most investors use graphs to assess risk, they’re doing it wrong.
Style: The shoulder pad index
In any era, the bigger the economic burden resting on women’s shoulders, the bigger the shoulders.
Travel: Post-recession optimism in New York City
What to do and where to go in a city reinventing itself.
The Performer: Former chief of defence Rick Hillier
On ?ruthless’ prioritizing, guarding your credibility above all, and learning to always make use of a good crisis.
